Department of Labor Goes After Independent Contractors

As longtime readers know, I've been talking about the possibility of the 1099 exemption for real estate agents going away for quite a few years now. I first wrote about it in 2014, after raising the issue of real estate agents getting classified as employees at the 2013 T3 Summit, then again in 2015 in looking at Monell v. Boston Pads.

Without question, …